My first project is a concrete poem/notated version of William Carlos Williams poem This is Just to Say. I often have a hard time understanding why some things are considered literature or art. When I first read this poem, I definitely did not understand why it's so famous. The more I read the it, the more I enjoyed its simplicity and I found myself digging deep to figure out its meaning. I began to study the placement of the text and the grammar used throughout. I wanted to incorporate these thoughts in my adaptation of the poem. In order to do so, some components of my project are font type, font color, word placement, and the background image.
I chose different font types for different words. For example the words "so sweet" are in segoe script, which is a very curvy text that reminds me of something sweet. For different words that I felt like were key words, I searched through the font types and chose one that suited the mood of the word.
I did the same thing for the font color. To stick with the same example, I chose pink for the words "so sweet" because I think of something sweet as being pink. And an obvious example is
the word "plums" in the color purple.
Although I'm not sure you can tell or not, there are three plums created by the placement of the text. The layout of the words in the three plums are identical. I wanted to create the visual of the plums and force the reader to reread the words in order to figure out what words are really there. Can you tell? Would you be able to make sense of this poem even if you could read it line by line? These are questions I want the viewer to ask themselves. The words are a part of the overall visual, but complicate Carlos's original meaning (whatever that might be). Also, I realize that some of the words are hard to see, but that was an issue with the background. I wanted an image of ice and plums so the viewer will wonder why such random things appear (in the same way that I wonder why someone would write about plums in an icebox). Hopefully this component will make the viewer study the project harder.
3 comments:
I really like your use of fonts and colors to sort of animate the poem. This along with the shape of the words in three plums I think works very well for your project. I like what you were doing trying to use the picture of ice in the background but I didn't see that the picture you used was ice until I read what you wrote about it. I think it is a good picture because the text is still readable and not lost. Maybe you could find a picture or use the same picture but place it around the text. That would be my only suggestion, if you do not change anything this is still a really good project and I like it.
Hi Jennifer,
I'm a little confused by this. I appreciate you've gone for the non-linear approach but I don't quite follow it.
You have put in a lot of effort into the design and it shows. The only thing I have to query about it is just the scattered nature of it.
I thought this was very cool. The play and animation with the words were very well done.
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